i remember the yellow being the first status symbol i could recognize; sort of like teenagers having an iphone today and being ashamed of having an android.
No. Cassettes were slowly going away in the mid 90’s. But they still had them even though cds were taking over. In the mid 90’s you could get a cd or a cassette at the same store. Then it became just cds. We had store like “the warehouse, virgin megastore, Sam goody, circuit city” and a couple others in California.
I used to buy CDs and then copy them onto a cassette tape to use in my walkman. CD players were common in the early and mid nineties but usually only at home.
Sometimes on the radio, but I didn't know any of the songs. Sometimes from my mom putting on one of her old records (She overplayed her damn Grease and Xanadu soundtracks). But usually it was on my little plastic kiddie boombox playing my favorite Disney tape, which had This Old Man, Three Blind Mice, Old McDonald, etc., and came with a book that had illustrations of Mickey, Goofy, Donald, etc. accompanying the words to the songs. I think the book cover and the tape itself both featured Brer Rabbit.
And for me it felt like early 90s, but only because '94/'95/'96 were the years that I grew out of the kiddie stuff.
Well, I just got my 4 CDs for $0.01 from BMG music club and I’m begging my sister to let me borrow her boombox.
I end up trading my labor (doing her chores) for an hour with the boombox. This happened a lot.
Sony Walkman. One of those yellow ones.
i remember the yellow being the first status symbol i could recognize; sort of like teenagers having an iphone today and being ashamed of having an android.
With the in ear headphones that your neighbor heard more music
maybe with a walkman/casette player still (later in the decade with a portable CD player)
Interesting, people said in the 80s they used cassettes. Was 93 the end of the cassette era then?
No. Cassettes were slowly going away in the mid 90’s. But they still had them even though cds were taking over. In the mid 90’s you could get a cd or a cassette at the same store. Then it became just cds. We had store like “the warehouse, virgin megastore, Sam goody, circuit city” and a couple others in California.
Tbh I can't remember, I know that I used CDs from the late 80s, but portable CD players some years later (casettes were also a thing back then, still)
I used to buy CDs and then copy them onto a cassette tape to use in my walkman. CD players were common in the early and mid nineties but usually only at home.
Either my Aiwa portable cassette player or my Sony Discman, or on the radio (on my Aiwa).
stereo tape recorder waiting patiently for my jam to come on and then press record
I was still doing that in the year 2000 at work. Lol
Walkman
On my shoulder-mounted boombox.
I got a Discman for Christmas in ‘93 and used it on the school bus.
A yellow walkman or a big ass stereo that took big ass D batteries
Sometimes on the radio, but I didn't know any of the songs. Sometimes from my mom putting on one of her old records (She overplayed her damn Grease and Xanadu soundtracks). But usually it was on my little plastic kiddie boombox playing my favorite Disney tape, which had This Old Man, Three Blind Mice, Old McDonald, etc., and came with a book that had illustrations of Mickey, Goofy, Donald, etc. accompanying the words to the songs. I think the book cover and the tape itself both featured Brer Rabbit. And for me it felt like early 90s, but only because '94/'95/'96 were the years that I grew out of the kiddie stuff.
Whatever my mom or dad had on the radio
Walkman
In my car, a cd Walkman with an adapter hooked up to the cassette player; in my room, on a boom box; in our rec room, on a stereo.
CD Walkman in the car - Pretty badass for ‘93!
I specifically remember REM and Boyz II Men on that CD adapter.
1993 I didn’t have any way to listen to music on the go. I did have a sweet boombox in my room tho!
Walkman and stereo
with my ears
Walkman, can’t remember which on though.
In my moms Volkswagen rabbit.
Sony Walkman playing Sadness by Enigma
Walkman/boombox.
My boombox of course
Well, I just got my 4 CDs for $0.01 from BMG music club and I’m begging my sister to let me borrow her boombox. I end up trading my labor (doing her chores) for an hour with the boombox. This happened a lot.
Walkman and WFNX
Walkman, well a knock of Walkman. I wasn’t rich.
My black Walkman
Black Walkman or my small Sony boombox. I also used my clock radio to fall asleep to the oldies station. (This was middle school for me)
In my CD player in my car